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Stephannie Roy All Messages By This Member #792 I’m almost done spinning singles from a project I started at least 2 years ago. I’m using my matchless with the high speed whorl and high speed bobbins to make a fine yarn. As a two ply it looks like a light fingering/heavy lace weight. When I ply, would I also continue to use the high speed whorl and bobbins? I wondered if it would add too much twist. I only have two high speed bobbins so just planning whether I need to rewind the singles so I can do the plying. Steph
Sarah Mongano All Messages By This Member #793 It depends ? If you use the high speed setup you’ll have to see how fast twist is going in and adjust how fast you are feeding the yarn into the wheel to get the amount of twist you want. If you use your regular whorl and bobbins and a slower ratio but you’ll have to do the same monitoring you get the amount of twist you want, and you will probably have to treadle faster or feed the yarn in slower to get the same amount of twist in. I almost always ply at a higher ratio than I spin but thats because I don’t want it to take any longer than it has to. Sarah toggle quoted message Show quoted text On May 10, 2020, at 4:54 PM, Stephannie Roy <stephannie.roy@...> wrote: ?I’m almost done spinning singles from a project I started at least 2 years ago. I’m using my matchless with the high speed whorl and high speed bobbins to make a fine yarn. As a two ply it looks like a light fingering/heavy lace weight. When I ply, would I also continue to use the high speed whorl and bobbins? I wondered if it would add too much twist. I only have two high speed bobbins so just planning whether I need to rewind the singles so I can do the plying. Steph
Therese Shere All Messages By This Member #794 I am the last person who should opine, since I'm still pretty much a from-the-gut spinner who doesn't think much about what she's doing or why, but like Sarah I usually ply?at a higher ratio than I spin - usually just go up (or down, I guess) to the next fastest whorl. And basically it's because I want the plying to go fast. As Sarah says, you should be able get the results you want either way, you'll just have to adjust your speed and handling of the singles differently. It'll be satisfying to get those plied and finished! --Therese Thérèse Shere Freelance indexing & digital information design toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 6:05 PM Sarah Mongano <sarah.mongano@...> wrote: It depends ? If you use the high speed setup you’ll have to see how fast twist is going in and adjust how fast you are feeding the yarn into the wheel to get the amount of twist you want. If you use your regular whorl and bobbins and a slower ratio but you’ll have to do the same monitoring you get the amount of twist you want, and you will probably have to treadle faster or feed the yarn in slower to get the same amount of twist in. I almost always ply at a higher ratio than I spin but thats because I don’t want it to take any longer than it has to. Sarah > On May 10, 2020, at 4:54 PM, Stephannie Roy <stephannie.roy@...> wrote: > > ?I’m almost done spinning singles from a project I started at least 2 years ago. I’m using my matchless with the high speed whorl and high speed bobbins to make a fine yarn. As a two ply it looks like a light fingering/heavy lace weight. > > When I ply, would I also continue to use the high speed whorl and bobbins? I wondered if it would add too much twist. I only have two high speed bobbins so just planning whether I need to rewind the singles so I can do the plying. > > Steph > > >
Jaya Srikrishnan All Messages By This Member #795 I too use a higher speed when plying?but I sometimes start slower so I can see what the yarn looks like before I speed up. After a ply for a bit, I pull the yarn off the bobbin and inspect both how it hangs in a loop and what the twist angle looks like. These days I sometimes need a magnifying glass to do this for fine yarns. It should not hang in a balanced loop unless the singles were freshly spun but how far to the plying side the loop is twisted gives me a hint. I like my yarn a bit over-plied, btw. The twist angle is more important to me. I want it to be around 45-60 degrees when it is pulled off the bobbin. The twist angle going into the orifice lies. For some reason, that no one can explain to me with physics, a little twist vanishes between the orifice and the bobbing - at lease for me. I then aim for a slightly higher twist angle going into the orifice.? I do periodic checks as I'm plying?also.? toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 7:54 PM Stephannie Roy <stephannie.roy@...> wrote: I’m almost done spinning singles from a project I started at least 2 years ago. I’m using my matchless with the high speed whorl and high speed bobbins to make a fine yarn. As a two ply it looks like a light fingering/heavy lace weight. When I ply, would I also continue to use the high speed whorl and bobbins? I wondered if it would add too much twist. I only have two high speed bobbins so just planning whether I need to rewind the singles so I can do the plying. Steph -- Jaya

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